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Oldenlandia luzuloides

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Identification
Oldenlandia luzuloides K.Schum. [family RUBIACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Amphiasma luzuloides (K.Schum.) Bremek. [family RUBIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Amphiasma luzuloides
  • Oldenlandia luzuloides

Flora

Entry for AMPHIASMA luzuloides (K. Schum.) Bremek. [family RUBIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 1, (1976) Author: B. VERDCOURT
Names
AMPHIASMA luzuloides (K. Schum.) Bremek. [family RUBIACEAE], in Verh. K. Nederl. Akad. Wet., Afd. Natuurk., ser. 2, 48(2): 170 (1952). Type: Malawi, Nyika Plateau, Whyte (B, holo. †, K, iso.!)
Oldenlandia luzuloides K. Schum. [family RUBIACEAE], in E.J. 28: 55 (1899)
Oldenlandia luzuloides K. Schum. [family RUBIACEAE], in E.J. 30: 411 (1901), nom. illegit. Type: Tanzania, Ukinga Mt., Goetze 998 (B, holo. †, EA, K, iso.!)
Information
Perennial herb, with erect stems 14–40 cm. tall from a many-headed rhizome; stems strict, simple or sparsely branched, glabrous. Leaves held erect; blades linear, 1–4 cm. long, 1–2(–3) mm. wide, scabridulous above and ± ciliolate at the base of the midvein beneath; stipular sheath 2–5 mm. long, truncate or with 2 minute teeth ± 0.2 mm. long. Inflorescences 2–5, situated at the apex and at the first 2 nodes beneath, capitulate, ± 6 mm. long, ± 6 mm. wide; peduncles 2–8 mm. long; pedicels 0–1.5 mm. long; bracts leaf-like, 3–9 mm. long, 1–2 mm. wide; flowers heterostylous. Calyx-tube glabrous, 1.2 mm. long; lobes 1–1.2 mm. long, with ciliolate margins. Corolla white or tinged lavender, glabrous or papillate outside; tube slightly funnel-shaped, 2.8–4 mm. long, pilose inside; lobes 2.2 mm. long, 1.6 mm. wide, lower half pilose inside. Style 4 mm. long in long-styled flowers, 2 mm. long in short-styled flowers; stigma 1 mm. long. Capsule 2 mm. long, 2.5 mm. wide. Seeds not seen. Fig. 37, p. 262.
Range
DISTR. T7
Altitude range
2500 m.
Distribution
TANZANIA Njombe District Ukinga Mts., Lipanga Mt., June 1899, Goetze 998!
Distribution (external)
Malawi
Notes
This species was presumably based on material at Berlin sent as a duplicate from Kew. K. Schumann curiously used the same name twice, so the second is a later homonym, but fortunately the two types belong to the same species. A. assimile Bremek., also described from the Nyika Plateau and supposed to have a different, less capituliform inflorescence and isostylous flowers, can be no more than a minor variant.

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